prediction borderline personality disorders relay on negative life events

background: borderline personality disorder (bpd) is a chronic condition that warrants further empirical investigation. the aim of this research was investigated prediction of bpd symptomatology relay on recent life experience. method and materials: data for the current study was collected from students of shiraz university. sample consisted of 120 undergraduate students. the ages of the sample ranged from 18-26 with an average age of 19.55. forty-four participants were men (36.6%) and fifty-six participants were women (46.6%). instruments were used in this study include: inventory of college students’ recent life experience (icsrle; kohn, lafreniere, & gurevich, 1990) and five-factor borderline personality inventory (ffbi; mullins-sweatt et al., 2012). results: revealed non-significant effects for gender on total borderline personality scores, five subscales of ffbi and negative life events. also these results showed negative life events predicted borderline personality traits. conclusion: negative life events could predict borderline personality traits.